Conference Programme 2012

5th Graduate Conference in Italian Studies Department of Italian, University College Cork Saturday, 4 February 2012 Conference Programme 9.00-­‐9.15 Registration -­‐ O’Rahilly Building, Social Area, 1st Floor, outside Department of Italian* 9.15-­‐10.30 Parallel Sessions I Translations and Adaptations (O’Rahilly Building, 1.45) Language Innovations and Technologies (O’Rahilly Building, 1.23) Chair Pierluigi Ercole Chair Donald O’Driscoll 1) Sarah Béarelle (Université Libre de Bruxelles), ‘L’Italia e la Francia: il caso di Ugo Foscolo’ 1) Silvia Benini (University of Limerick), ‘Italian Language and Culture Learning through Web 2.0 Tools’ 2) Gabriella Caponi-­‐Doherty (University College Cork), ‘A Curious Rendezvous: Pirandello’s Staging of D’Annunzio La figlia di Jorio’ 2) Giorgio Guzzetta (University College Cork), ‘Interfaces in Search of Authors’ 3) Giulia Zuodar (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Encounters between Cultures: The Case of Voss’s Italian Translation’ 3) Diana Song (Università degli Studi di Milano), ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio. A Linguistic Analysis of an Avant-­‐garde Italian Masterpiece’ 10.30-­‐10.45 Coffee 5th Graduate Conference, University College Cork, Ireland – 4 February 2012
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10.45-­‐12.00 Parallel Sessions II Resistenza e lotta politica (O’Rahilly Building, 1.23) Otherness and Disability in the Practice of Writing (O’Rahilly Building, 1.45) Chair Marco Amici Chair Alessia Risi 1) Filomena Fantarella (Brown University, Rhode Island), ‘Gaetano Salvemini. Un Professore itinerante’ 1) Annette Feeney (University College Cork), ‘Narratives of Madness: The Anorexic Body in Fleur Jaeggy’s I beati anni del castigo’ 2) Gian Paolo Ghirardini (University of Reading), ‘Civil Resistance and the Traditional Social Order in Italy (1943-­‐1945)’ 2) Christian Gabriele Moretti (University of Kent (UK)/Coláiste Chiaráin (Limerick)) ‘Pazzia o Santità: la Percezione della Realtà in Pozzoromolo di Luigi Carrino’ 3) Barbara Uhlig (University of Munich), ‘The Italian Student Riots of 1977 and Their Consequences for the Art Scene in Bologna’ 3) Kate Noson (University of California, Berkeley) ‘Overwriting Disability: Conflicts of Narrative Authority in Stefano Benni’s Achille piè veloce’ 12.00-­‐13.00 Plenary Session III (O’Rahilly Building, 1.56) Chair Silvia Ross Keynote Speaker: Professor Lucy Riall (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘National Unification and the Italian Memory Wars, 1860-­‐2011’ 13.00-­‐14.00 Lunch 5th Graduate Conference, University College Cork, Ireland – 4 February 2012
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14.00-­‐15.15 Parallel Sessions IV Beyond the Page: Diaries, Notebooks and Archives (O’Rahilly Building, 1.23) Cinema, prospettive e confronti (O’Rahilly Building, 1.45) Fragmented Selves: The Female Body between Sacrality and Motherhood (O’Rahilly Building, 1.56) Chair Daragh O’Connell Chair Marian Hurley Chair Annette Feeney 1) Stefano Bragato (University of Reading), ‘The Notebooks of Gabriele D’Annunzio: A Struggle for Aesthetic Autonomy’ 1) Franziska Andraschik (Università di Lipsia), ‘La sacralità, come unica cifra stilistica essenziale. Pier Paolo Pasolini e la musica nel primo cinema’ 1) Sanaa Khokher (University of East London), ‘Drawings from Leonardo da Vinci’s Oeuvre: Renaissance Degradation of the Feminine Envelope’ 2) Lisa Cadamuro (University of Pavia), ‘Critica del testo e processo creativo: Fortezza di Giovanni Giudici’ 2) Felice Di Maida (Università di Lipsia), ‘La prospettiva femminile ne La Notte di Michelangelo Antonioni’ 3) Victoria Weavil (University of Oxford), ‘From the Communal to the Individual in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Early Writings’ 3) Liliana Navarra (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), ‘I dialetti nel cinema: incomunicabilità sociale? Totò, Peppino e la Malafemmina e Benvenuti al sud due esempi a confronto’ 2) Paola Benchi (University College Dublin), ‘Naming the Child: Entering the Matrilineal Genealogy in Lo spazio bianco by Valeria Parrella’ 3) Elaine Hoysted (University College Cork), ‘Battista Sforza, Countess of Urbino: A Privileged Status in Motherhood’ 15.15-­‐15.45 Coffee 15.45-­‐17.00 Parallel Sessions V Reversal of Perspectives: Memory, Space and Mythical Boundaries Chair Michał Czorycki Feminist Politics and Female Representation (O’Rahilly Building, 1.23) Chair Emma Keane 1) Serena Alessi (Royal Holloway University of London), ‘The figure of Penelope in Luigi Malerba’s Itaca per sempre’ 1) Claire Buckley (University College Cork), ‘Bread and Roses: Voicing Discontent in Armanda Guiducci’s Due donne da buttare’ 2) Mafalda Barbuto (University College Cork), ‘Identity and Italian Colonial Memory in Gabriella Ghermandi’s Regina di fiori e di perle’ 2) Brenda Donohue (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Emma Dante and Feminism’ (O’Rahilly Building, 1.56) 3) Catriona Dann (University of Oxford) ‘The Final Frontier: Women and the Cityscape in Giuliana Morandini’s Mitteleuropean Trilogy’ 5th Graduate Conference, University College Cork, Ireland – 4 February 2012
3) Maria Morelli (University of Leicester), ‘Beyond Duality: The “Choreography” of Gender in Dacia Maraini’s Novels’ 3
* Please note that the O’Rahilly Building must be vacated by 5.00 p.m. After the conference, participants can choose to go as a group to a local pub, to be followed then by a conference dinner. Details of these arrangements will be provided shortly. Accommodation Information is available on the following website: http://www.ucc.ie/en/conferencing/accomodation/ Information on Travel to Cork and Directions to UCC are available on the website below: http://www.ucc.ie/en/visitors/ For further information please contact: Alessia Risi IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholar Department of Italian, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork Cork, Ireland [email protected] Tel: +353 21 490 3169/3261 Fax: +353 21 490 3263 5th Graduate Conference, University College Cork, Ireland – 4 February 2012
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